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Re:Lex Fridman Podcast #309 – John Carmack on Thursday August 04, 2022 @05:06PM (#32348286)
Shouldn't he not assume that the audience knows everything about the subject already?
Re:After Obsidian and Logseq, I give Dendron a try on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @01:37PM (#32253639)
I agree. PKM apps are nothing but an ADD sink for me.
Re:Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes on Monday March 14, 2022 @01:29PM (#30675287)
hello
Re:Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard on Friday April 02, 2021 @08:09AM (#26670760)
This sounds terribly convoluted compared to turning on mouse mode and selecting the text with your mouse. It should copy immediately after you release the button, and you should be able to paste with your standard shortcut if you set up tmux to use the clipboard of your choice.
Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @04:34PM (#26243177)
If it was Andressen, why wouldn't he support the claim that Satoshi is someone besides himself?
I’ll agree with Chomsky’s stance on pornography.
Re:Qutebrowser 2.0 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:18AM (#25943054)
If anyone has any hints on getting qutebrowser to not suck up battery and CPU on macOS Big Sur it would be much appreciated. Maybe things will smooth out in 2.0?
Re:Urbit Precepts Discussion on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:07PM (#25283005)
I don’t understand how it’s obscurantist. I’m a novice and am having fun learning the language. It’s open-source.
Re:Urbit Precepts Discussion on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @04:34PM (#25281956)
As a beginner programmer I did not have any more trouble understanding the Hoon tutorial than I do C, Go, or Haskell tutorials, for example.
Re:Urbit Precepts Discussion on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @03:59PM (#25281562)
I'm a non-programmer who is just skilled enough with computers to do some damage. Completely clueless about mathematical and information theory concepts, etc. Here's my measly two cents:

I've been running my own Urbit for a few years that I've connected to broader communities, and have found it to be a really exciting and fun platform. It feels like when I first found Usenet and MUDs as a teen in the 90s, except people are nicer. What I understand about its essential purpose sounds great — a decentralized identity that I own and can make communities with.

I am mostly a tech outsider, but I find it strange to see such a normally open-minded community (hackers) shut it down with such vehemence whenever it comes up

The title is misleading—Cell Signaling Technologies is a company. This appears to be Digizyme’s portfolio of work they have done for their client, Cell Signaling Technologies.
Re:Colorize Your CLI on Monday July 27, 2020 @10:38AM (#23965484)
`ls -F` is good enough for me
Re:Having Kids on Saturday December 14, 2019 @05:50PM (#21792909)
That’s great to hear. Believe it or not, visual impairment usually leads to delay in speech and other development, so I get a sense of where you’re coming from. All the best to you guys.
Re:Having Kids on Saturday December 14, 2019 @02:57PM (#21791771)
Thank you for this. My son is 2 and legally blind, so needless to say we have no life outside of him for now, but he is a joy. I would trade none of this for nothing.

Often I feel like I will never again be able to have a life, read a book, finish a project, have an idea. I know that it gets better and that I should cherish the moments we have while he is so young (and I do), but it’s hard to see more than a foot in front of you, so to speak. Thanks.

Re:Urbit on Sunday December 01, 2019 @09:43AM (#21675659)
Weird post. I am running my own Urbit, happily learning FP and network concepts along the way. I’m not even a programmer or an engineer, so it can’t be that obscurantist, and it certainly isn’t vaporware.

I’m very interested to know how an operating system can be racist.

It’s a purely functional operating system, and it’s pretty neat. It’s also open-source. The author’s naughty blog posts play absolutely nothing into this.

Re:Urbit on Sunday December 01, 2019 @08:39AM (#21675421)
Can you back up this claim?
Re:Urbit on Saturday November 30, 2019 @10:02PM (#21673540)
It’s an open-source project. Anyone can work on it or fork it. If you’ve got technical criticism, let’s hear it.
Re:OpenBSD: Why and How (2016) on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:12PM (#21531773)
Do you have the source somewhere public by chance? Sounds like a fun learning project.
Re:Moving towards a faster web on Monday November 11, 2019 @08:13PM (#21510612)
Blue checkmarks but for websites. A merit badge for playing by the biggest boys’ rules.
Re:An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @10:58AM (#7872867)
I think it's high time they extended the Blue Line north, at least to Lynn. Green Line coming to Somerville is welcome but far past due.
Re:An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @10:56AM (#7872856)
>I wish the MBTA was more transparent with this type of data and visualization. If they themselves charted things like this for the public, and then made commitments to improve (or at least not get worse) based on metrics that the community agrees are important, then I think that would be a significant move forward.

On a related note, what Somerville is doing right next door: https://data.somervillema.gov